Job description
Job Summary
The role of Enterprise Service Desk Team Lead is primarily responsible for acting as a technical escalation supporting Tier 1 & 2 teams, actively working tickets, and ensuring requests and incidents are progressing efficiently in line with SLA commitments throughout the Service Delivery model. When acting as a technical escalation the Team Lead should provide advanced trouble shooting and mentoring to other members of the Enterprise Service Desk team whilst also collaborating with Tier 3 and other SME teams, driving timely resolution of client requests and incidents.
Responsibilities:
- Continuously monitor and enforce SLAs and KPIs throughout the day against live tickets to ensure service performance and responsiveness.
- Provide training, coaching, and real-time assistance to all Service Desk Analysts.
- Identify strengths and weakness among the team and communicate with the Service Desk Manager when appropriate and/or during review cycles.
- Assist management in QA Review processes to improve ticket quality and escalation
- Provide both procedural and technical escalation support and guidance to all Service Desk Analysts while ensuring the highest levels of customer support are met.
- Review and approve technical escalations to Tier 3 and other SME teams to ensure ticket hygiene and relevant information is present.
- Action tickets by performing end-user PC and systems troubleshooting and responding to phone, email, and web requests as needed.
- Develop familiarity with client contracts to understand service levels and obligations.
- Assist in new hire on-boarding process.
Skills:
- Experience with ServiceNow ITSM platform
- Incident, request, problem, change and major incident management experience
- Strong IT Infrastructure, Desktop, and Networking experience, including but not limited to:
- Microsoft Windows 10 & 11
- Microsoft Server 2016-2025
- Microsoft 365 & Intune
- Entra ID/Active Directory
- Citrix Xenapp
- Virtualization, e.g. VMware, Hyper V, Proxmox
- Cisco Meraki
- Email Security, e.g. Proofpoint, Mimecast
- Skills (oral and written), with ability to converse both laterally and vertically.
- Excellent customer service and service management skills.
- High energy, friendly with the ability to articulate technical solutions into layman terms
- Able to work under pressure, prioritize and multitask.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Technical certifications and training a plus.
- ITIL certification or strong knowledge of working practices.
- 5 years minimum experience in a relevant field.
- Experience within a large service delivery organization a plus
